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vitamin d holds up under scrutiny
Six studies confirm the health benefits of vitamin D We often see headlines mentioning a chemical or vitamin has astonishing new health benefits, only to have those claims fall apart under more...
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hooked leaves kill bedbugs
The New York Times covers this paper on how bean leaves help fight bedbug infestations. The leaves in question have tiny hooks that trap the bedbugs’ legs as they crawl over them. Using these leaves...
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the see through brain
A mouse brain imaged using the CLARITY technique. Brain research has been getting lots of press since President Barack Obama announced his BRAIN initiative to map the human brain. Earlier this week,...
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HIV testing by DVD
A recent paper in Lab on a Chip describes using a DVD player as a diagnostic tool. The researchers convert the optical drive into a laser scanning device that can count the number of CD4+ cells. From...
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creating oligodendrocytes
Popular Science covers two papers that appear in Nature Biotechnology on the topic of creating new brain cells. Researchers have developed a method to take skin cells from mice and rats and turn them...
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AIDS vaccine fails
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte The past two weeks brought plenty of interesting science news, including the failure of a potential AIDS vaccine. From...
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fighting tuberculosis with rats
Image from NPR. Abdullah Mchumvu trains African giant pouched rats in Morogoro, Tanzania Tuberculosis still kills 1.4 million people a year, mostly in the developing world. So it is still beneficial to...
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cloning human embryonic stem cells
Image from ScienceNews Nature reports on the recent success in cloning human embryonic stem cells: Mitalipov and his group began work on their new study last September, using eggs from young donors...
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manufactured burgers
In vitro meat. Image from the New York Times Last week, the New York Times brought news of an upcoming burger taste test in London. Scientists have been hard at work developing new lab grown meat that...
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the effects of bad science
Vaccination A new epidemic of measles has broken out in Wales. Vaccination rates fell after a paper linking the vaccine to autism was published in the 1998. The paper was later proven to be fraudulent....
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dopamine explained
The structure of dopamine Last week on Slate, Bethany Brookshire explains the neurotransmitter dopamine and how it effects many different chemical processes: What is dopamine? Dopamine is one of the...
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singers’ heart rates are in sync
A study published in Frontiers in Psychology, details how the heart rates of choral singers synch up during a performance. As explained by Scicurious at Scientific American: How exactly is this...
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fly brains
Scientists have mapped the neurons in the medulla of the fruit fly. Scientists at HHMI Janelia Farms have mapped the neurocircuitry that controls motion detection in fruit flies. The researchers froze...
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saturn’s rings
The Cassini spacecraft took this wide angle shot of Saturn’s rings in June 2013. Check out the NASA site for more information on the Cassini mission
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23,000 people a year die from superbugs
Drug resistan staph aureus That’s the result of the latest study from the CDC which you can read here. At least 2 million people annually are infected by resistant bacteria. Popular Science has more on...
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more on the antibiotic resistance crisis
The New York Times editoriaizes on the CDC study that found 23,000 people a year die each year due to infections from drug resistant bacteria: The new report, for the first time, puts 17 drug-resistant...
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gross and interesting news
Part of a 2 ft long blood clot A team of doctors a UCLA vacuumed a 2 foot long blood clot out of a patient’s heart. The clot extended from his leg to the entry of his heart. The doctors used a machine...
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my science fair projects were never this cool
2013 Google Science Fair winners Google has announced the winners of their 2013 science fair: Viney Kumar designed a program that lets drivers know when emergency vehicles are approaching. Hopefuly the...
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2013 nobels
The 2013 Nobel prizes in medicine, physics, and chemistry were awarded this week, with the medals for literature, peace and economics are yet to come. In medicine, James Rothman, Randy Schekman and...
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bacterial profiles by ethnicity
A Venn diagram showing bacterial profiles by ethnicity. A group of researchers can determine your ethnicity by sampling bacterial from your mouth. From Popular Science: Almost 400 different species...
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